Austin Bechtel

That they should be talking about.

Well, because you would also be talking about, I don't know, roughly another $40 million that he would get because he's not making three years of pre-arb.

And then the first year of arbitration, maybe the money is a little bit different.

What really fascinates me with the whole entire idea of a Griffin deal is why not...

offer him the Roman Anthony contract right now, not even thinking about the Emerson deal or the Churrio deal, just to blow him away, and it's not that bad of a contract.

You know this guy's going to hit.

So why even risk one day in the majors he comes up and, let's say in his first week, hits three home runs, something similar that he did at the start of spring training, and then you're pricing yourself out.

I don't know why the Pirates wouldn't just blow him away now so that they don't get blown out themselves of a potential deal.

That makes sense.

What was it like as a player, and I know that the money now is not what it was 20 years ago, but watching what the Dodgers can do and just buy an entire roster, the Yankees do the exact same thing.

If you're playing for a club like the Pirates or the Reds or Cleveland like that,

What do players think when they see other guys in the stacked rosters that the Dodgers have compared to those other franchises?

Cruz off a lefty.

Yeah, Matt, I think it's safe to say that O'Neal Cruz has found it.

I tweeted that last night after he hit the second home run.

I talked to somebody that said that they had spoken to some people that tried to do some digging on the cone, on what hoist the cone means.

And they found out that it's kind of an initiative that baseball is trying to make to get younger fans involved in the game.

So I guess seeing a... At first it started with hoist the cone.

What the heck could this possibly mean?

As a t-shirt that was on, I think, maybe MLBshop.com.